ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNFIGURED LEPIDOPTERA. II 



MOLLENDO. 



Rather sooner than I expected, we reached Mollendo, Peru, 

 this morning, October 23d, after a most satisfactory voyage on 

 both the Atlantic and the Pacific. The first four or five days 

 out from New York were not enjoyable. A short, precise 

 statement surely, but as the weather was rough, a more de- 

 tailed account of those days is entirely unnecessary. 



We expected to be detained on the isthmus several days, 

 a common occurrence in making connections with the Pacific 

 steamers, but owing to a special train and the fact that the 

 steamer was held over for a day, we made no loss in time. 

 The Pacific steamers running down the South American coast 

 make stops at the more important cities, giving the traveller 

 opportunity to land and see many interesting spots. The 

 methods of loading and unloading being undeveloped, and high 

 tide being at some places necessary, our stops often covered 

 an entire day. 



The weather along this west coast was much colder than I 

 anticipated, especially near Cape Blanco, and overcoats were 

 much needed. On the second day out from Panama, we 

 sighted the coast of Ecuador, and thence on to Mollendo land 

 was in sight most of the time. Only at a few places was 

 the coast anything but a barren tract; sometimes hilly, some- 

 times terraced, sometimes low and flat, with mountains in the 

 distance. 



As above noted, we reached Mollendo Oct. 23d and with- 

 out mishap. Mollendo is some forty feet above sea level, ex- 

 tending up the slopes of the hill, forming an obtuse angle 

 with the coast to the north. The hills are barren, showing 

 occasional patches of green and yellow, the latter, I after- 

 wards discovered, being yellow flowers, no shrubs or trees, 

 beyond those planted in the town, being in sight. 



I will be delayed here two days, as trains to Arequipa run 

 only three times a week. In the morning, I visited the hills, 

 but secured only two species of butterflies, one a Pamphila 

 (unidentified), the other a Pieris (P. Blanchardii Butl.), a 

 few specimens of each. 



